Jamaica Gleaner News
Published: Monday Friday | February 5, 2010
Skydiving comes to Jamaica - New facility opens at Boscobel
The hair-raising thrill of skydiving is in Jamaica, thanks to Skydive Jamaica, which opened recently at the Boscobel Aerodrome in St Mary. Skydive Jamaica specialises in tandem skydives, the most popular and safest introduction to the sport.... Read More...
Reinsurers to review earthquake risk rating
Local general insurers are working with international reinsurers in reviewing the weighting given to earthquakes in assessing the risk to commercial and residential buildings.The move was prompted by a slew of powerful... Read More...
Judge blasts cops in kidnapping case
Supreme Court judge Leighton Pusey on Wednesday castigated the police for their failure to sew together a coherent case in the matter of the four persons charged with the alleged kidnapping last month of a St Ann... Read More...
Phipps, wife seek Privy Council reversal in land dispute
Prominent Queen's Counsel Frank Phipps and his wife, Pearl, are heading for the United Kingdom Privy Council in an effort to get a consent order set aside.They had appealed against an order by Supreme Court judge Carol... Read More...
Tufton finds 'willing' hands - in prison - Cassava project takes root at Tamarind Farm
Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Dr Christopher Tufton's eat-what-you-grow pitch has been a hard sell to many free Jamaicans. But Tufton, who has been stuck with the moniker, 'Cassava Man', has found diligent disciples in, perhaps, the unlikeliest of places - prison... Read More...
Community split insensitive - Grange
CENTRAL ST Catherine Member of Parliament Olivia Grange on Wednesday chided the Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ) for not taking due care in its recent reconfiguration of constituency boundaries, particularly as it relates to one community.... Read More...
New boundaries for Trelawny?
THE ELECTORAL Commission of Jamaica (ECJ) has served notice that the constituency boundaries in Trelawny may have to be reconfigured.At the same time, the ECJ has said St Thomas, Manchester, St Ann and Westmoreland... Read More...
Church on the Rock launches Net café
An Internet café geared to serve residents of several low-income St Andrew communities was yesterday launched at Church on the Rock. The Rock Internet Café, which was financed through the Government's Universal Access Fund... Read More...
Jarrett, Williams get UWI honours
Seventeen distinguished United States and Caribbean nationals, including four present and former regional leaders who earned degrees from the University of the West Indies (UWI), were honoured by the university in New York, last week, at an annual... Read More...
Chang to seek scientists' advice on cloud seeding
WATER AND Housing Minister Dr Horace Chang has revealed that he will be asking a team of scientists to advise him on whether Jamaica should attempt to seed clouds for rain."Cloud seeding is still a very inexact sciencea... Read More...
Falmouth paid parking to ease traffic, raise funds
FALMOUTH, Trelawny:Following in the vein of many parish councils which have, over the last two years, implemented traffic controls, paid parking has become a reality for motorists in sections of Falmouth.Paid parking, which initiated on February 1... Read More...
Canada woos Jamaican nurses
Kimberlee Cole-Henry and Kelvin Henry, a young Jamaican couple, see a bright future for themselves in Canada through an initiative of the Pre-University School's Canadian Licensed Practical Nursing Programme, in collaboration with the Jamaican ... Read More...
